Brussels’ center-left coalition is built on “lies and deceit,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said while his party set out to create its own parliamentary group of like-minded Central European parties.
“Extraordinary measures need to be employed” on the EU’s eastern borders, the four countries argue, asking for at least €2.5 billion for a 700-km defense line.
The pact—committing the EU to supply financial support, arms deliveries, and military training to Kyiv indefinitely—is to be reviewed every ten years.
“No true democrat can accept” a select few deciding for everyone else, the furious Italian PM said.
Many in the party still actively seek agreement with Marine Le Pen’s ID group instead, a senior party official told The European Conservative.
The EU mainstream is still calling the shots, as leaders and factions who fail at the ballots put unelected bureaucrats in charge of 450 million people.
EU leaders celebrate the ‘historic day,’ despite the average decade-long process to clear all negotiation milestones.
Poland could join the Franco-German initiative—while warning that the next French government could undermine continuous EU support for Ukraine.
Czech populist ANO finally quit the Renew group, while the Greens welcomed the Eurofederalist progressive Volt in their ranks.
Brussels will welcome its eighth parliamentary group in just a few days, but the final composition will likely be negotiated until the last minute.
The German national conservatives have given up on rejoining ID and will instead lead their own group further to the right.
ECR co-president Nicola Procaccini: AUR party has ‘changed’; no longer too extreme to join the group.
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